Events from the year 1937 in Scotland.
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- 3 February – Alex Young, footballer (died 2017)
- 10 February – Anne Anderson, physiologist (died 1983)
- 16 February – Jimmy Frizzell, footballer and football manager (died 2016)
- 6 April – Angus Grossart, businessman (died 2022)
- 8 April – Claire Nielson, actress
- 18 April – Teddy Taylor, Conservative politician (died 2017)
- 28 April – Jean Redpath, folk singer (died 2014 in the United States)
- 6 May – Robin Fulton, poet and translator
- 7 July – Sheila Stewart, folk singer (died 2014)
- 21 August – Donald Dewar, Labour politician and First Minister of Scotland (died 2000)[9]
- 24 August – George Kerr judo expert
- 3 September – Willie Bell, footballer (died 2023)
- 4 October – Jim Sillars, politician
- 9 October – Fiona Cumming, television director (died 2015)
- 15 November – Ron Yeats, footballer (died 2024)
- 18 November – Colette O'Neil, actress (died 2021)
- 21 December
- date unknown
- 6 January – Robert Urie, steam locomotive engineer (born 1854)
- 21 February – Wallace Lindsay, classical scholar (born 1858)
- 23 February – John Begg, architect, who practised in London, South Africa and India (born 1866)
- 10 April – Ernest Auldjo Jamieson, architect (born 1880)
- 21 May – Sir Alexander Grant, 1st Baronet, biscuit manufacturer and philanthropist (born 1864)
- 19 June – J. M. Barrie, author best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan (born 1860; died in London)
- 28 July – Sir William Younger, 1st Baronet, of Auchen Castle, politician (born 1862)
- 21 September – Chrystal Macmillan, mathematician, suffragist, politician, barrister and pacifist (born 1872)
- 30 October – Sir Herbert Maxwell, novelist, essayist, artist, antiquarian, horticulturalist and Conservative politician (born 1845)
- 8 November – Alasdair Tayler, historical writer (born 1870)
- 9 November – Ramsay MacDonald, Labour politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1866; died at sea)
- 6 December – Francis Cadell, Colourist painter (born 1883)
- John Stevenson Rhind, sculptor (born 1859)
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Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 93.
MacAskill, Ewen (11 October 2000). "Donald Dewar". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 May 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
"Jamie the Saxt" (PDF). finboroughtheatre.co.uk. Finborough Theatre. Retrieved 24 June 2024.